Sewing-machine base.



No. 740,256. PATBNTED SEPT.- 29, 190s.

G. M.BAMES& A. LAUBSGHBR.

SEWING MAGHINB BASE.

APPLIGATION PIL'ED MAY 7, 1903.

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SEWINJF MACHINE BASE.

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PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. EAMES AND ALEXANDER LAUBSCHER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CON- NECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO WHEELER ojJWILSON MANUFACTURING COM- PANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- Y NECTICUT.

SEWING-MACHINE BASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 740,256, dated September 29, 1903.

Application filed May '7, 1903. Serial No. 156 ,110. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern: Be it known that we, GEORGE M. EAMES and ALEXANDER LAUBSGHER, citizens of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Faireld and State of Cou necticut,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sewing- Machine Bases, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

' In the use of ordinary flat-bed sewing-machines, especially those that are power driven, it is oftentimes. desirable to have the work travel around the cloth-plate without hindrance toits movements. Power-driven sewing-machines have to be freely oiled, and it is quite necessary to protect the work from the dripping oil.

It is the object of this invention to provide for these and other contingencies; and to this end the invention consists of a base upon which the sewing-machine is mounted in such way as to be capable of being turned over, as upon a hinge, for giving access to its under works, and which base aords the necessary means to enable the work to be moved around the cloth-plate without hindrance and also serves as a drip-pan or oil-receptacle to catch the dripping lubricant.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a perspective view of the base detached. Fig. 2 is an end elevation showing a flat-bed sewing-machine hinged to the base and tilted over sidewise, a portion only of the sewingmachine being shown and that in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the base applied to an approved form of power bench or stand for sewing-machines.

The base may be and preferably is a metal casting of trough-like form comprising a sub-` stantially fiat door l, provided with screwholes 2 or other means for securing it in place upona stand, and vertical walls 3, 4, and 5, rising from opposite sides and at one end, and a curved lateral projection 6, having an end wall 7. The wall 3 of the base and that portion of the projection continuous thereof is provided Witha substantially horizontal ledge 8, which may have sockets to receive the ordinary hinge members of a sewing-machine or may be supplied with sockets composed of metal plates 9, bolted or otherwise secured to the ledge 8, with any suitable noise-deadening or cushioning devices 10 interposed, rubber, felt, leather, and the like being suitable for this purpose. The plates 9 are provided with transverse slots 1l to coperate with the complemental hinge members'12 of the sewing-machine 13. (See Fig. 2.) The opposite wall of the base is supplied with cushions of rubber, felt, leather, or other material lll to receive the opposite edge of the bed of the sewing-machine. The wall 4 may be supplied 1 with a screw l5 to engage a flange on the sewing-machine or a hole in such flange to hold the sewing-machine firmly upon the base.

As shown in Fig. 3, the base has its datv ances in common use,and therefore need no further description here.

As indicated in Fig. 2, the sewing-machine may be hinged to this base and movable thereon in the ordinary way.

The base not only serves as such for the sewing-machine, but it also serves as an oilreceptacle or drip-pan to catch the lubricant dropping from the sewing-machine and prevent it from soiling the work.

The projecting end of the base adords an unbroken edge for the material totravel over when stitching endless strips or skirts or in cording endless strips and in hemming pillowcases and other articles that have to be fed around the cloth-plate of the sewing-machine.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the base admits of the use of a {iat-bed sewing-machine for many, it not substantially alhpurposes usually reqniringa cylinder sewing-machine.

Vhat we claim is- 1. A sewing-machine base of trough-like form,having a main portion provided with a v fig '740,256

bottom, side Walls, and an end wall, and a the main portion and the curved portion and laterally-projecting curved portion also havhaving hinge members, the lateral projection ing an end wall, combined with a table or of the curved portion permitting the Work to I5 stand having its top out out beneath the said be freely passed around it.

5 curved portion to permit the Work to be In testimony whereof We have hereunto set passed freely about said curved portion. our hands this 6th day of May, A. D. 1903.

2. A sewing-machine base of trough-like 1 form, having a main portion provided with a GEORGE M LAMES' fiat bottom, parallel side Walls, and an end ALEXANDER LAUBSCHER' 1o Wall, a laterally-projecting curved portion Witnesses:

also having an end wall, and a substantially F. W. OSTROM, horizontal ledge extending along one side of A. DONIHEE. 

